5. Jakobsonian contiguity relations and metonymic modes in gesture 6. On the semiotic reality of image schemata and force gestalts in gesture 7. Concluding remarks 8. References 1. Gesture and the exbodied mind Emerging from the human body, gestures have been shown to provide valuable insights into the physical grounding and socio-cultural situatedness of cognition and language use. Since they tend to be produced rather unconsciously, gestures may particularly reveal less-monitored aspects of cognitive and emotional processes during communication (e.g., Cienki 1998a; Mü ller 1998; Sweetser 1998). Given the central place of the embodied mind in cognitive linguistics and other experientialist theories that account for multimodal and sensorimotor dimensions of concepts, mental imagery, language, and meaningful experience more broadly, exploring the bodily basis of perceptive, imaginative, and communicative processes seems to be a pertinent endeavor (e.g., Gibbs 2006;
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